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for L'Arracheur de Dents
L'Arracheur de Dents
Creator
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1877
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall (sheet): 21.2 x 29.6 cm (8 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Image: 18.2 x 24.4 cm (7 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Image: 18.2 x 24.4 cm (7 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Drucker, 1961
Category
- Prints
Object number60/11.7
ProvenanceThis print was not published during the time period that Daumier was active as a lithographer. It was published in 1877 through the method of gillotage. The image shows a tooth drawer standing up on a carriage in the middle of a street. This man has pulled out the tooth of another figure who sits in the carriage with a swollen jaw and bandage wrapped around his head. A crowd of onlookers stand in the background. The tooth drawer wears elaborate headgear, which suggests that he is a deceiver and not a licensed practitioner. The subject of tooth drawers has a long tradition in visual imagery, dating back to Hieronymus Bosch’s time in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
LocationNot currently on display
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